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Virtual Field Trips

The newest Virtual Field Trip is to use:
Google Earth to provide a more interactive field trip.
See the Google Earth page for more trip information.

There are different types of virtual field trips:
1. Expeditions where you join the team and interact with them as they explore the world. Timeframe and availability of class during the conference time is needed.
2. Virtual tour of important places such as national parks, and historical or geographic areas or zoos put together by experts, where you have activities, lots of photos, some 360 degree views and the opportunity to ask the experts questions. One of the great capabilities is to add live web cams to places like zoos so students can watch live video.
3. Virtual field trip put together teachers or subject specialist based on what students need to learn, with thinking questions and activities, and specific links to use. There are Virtual multimedia field trips to teach one subject such as coal mining or math. You can set your own virtual field trips with Google Earth or Trailfire.com.

Education world describes virtual field trips and how to use them in your classroom. Start here with their list of sites.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech071.shtml

Search for virtual field trips using Filamentality:
http://www.kn.att.com/kne_search.html

Create your own Virtual Field trip using Google Earth. Mark the location, provide websites to visit and other information along the way. See Google Earth.

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Lists of Virtual Field Trips

List of Trips	http://oswego.org/staff/cchamber/webdesign/virtual_fieldtrips.htm
List of Trips	http://home-educate.com/fieldtrip.shtml
List of Trips	http://www.field-trips.org/trips.htm

Specific Virtual Field Trips

Virtual World Travel	http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/globaltrek/
Pearl Harbor, Gettysburg, Denali, Ecosystems	http://www.efieldtrips.org/Schedules/searchResults.cfm?searchType=all
Space Stations 360 degree views	http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/space/station/360/
Coal Mine	http://www2.illinoisbiz.biz/coal/virtualtour/index.html
Animal Live Web cams	http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/WebCams/
Washington DC Tour	http://www.rcps.org/dis/teachers/swope/DC%20Virtual%20Tour/DC%20Virtual%20Tour.htm
Oceanographic Field Trips	http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=8881
Global Biodiversity expeditions	http://investigate.conservation.org/xp/IB/expeditions/
Grade level/subject field trips	http://www.tramline.com/trips.htm
Lewis and Clark Expedition	http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/
Math Virtual Field Trip	http://villainyinc.thinkport.org/
Interactive field trips	http://www.thinkport.org/Classroom/trips.tp